The Annual Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference draws top doctoral students from around the world to present their research in the fields of Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, and Behavioral Marketing. The goal of the conference is to foster an environment to promote interaction amongst doctoral student researchers and to provide feedback for students presenting their work in these fields.

The research efforts in these fields have been helped immeasurably by the generous support of Andrew Redleaf of Whitebox Advisors.

Click here for the Call For Papers (CLOSED).

REGISTRATION
In order to ensure that we have space for all participants, we ask that you pre-register at this site (registration closed).
Registration deadline is Friday April 21, 2017.

For assistance, please contact Electra Ferriello at 203-436-0784 or Electra.Ferriello@yale.edu

Conference Agenda
Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference 2017
Day 1: Thursday April 27, 2017
Edward P. Evans Hall, Classroom 4210

8:15am	Bus departs The Omni Hotel for Evans Hall (for conference presenters and guests staying at hotel)
8:30am	Registration and Breakfast outside of Classroom 4210 Note: there is a reserved room to secure luggage and belongings if needed in Evans Hall, breakout room 4266*

	SESSION 1: Behavioral Finance
9:00am	The Cross-predictability of Industry Returns in International Financial Markets By Xin Wang, University of Toronto
9:30am	Macro News, Micro News, and Stock Prices By Jinfei Sheng, Sauder School of Business
10:00am	Peer Financial Distress and Household Debt By Ankit Kalda, Washington University in St. Louis
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Costly Mistakes in Credit Markets: Evidence from Consumer Loans By Jacelly Cespedes, University of Texas
11:30am	Decomposing the Price-to-Book Ratio By Zhengyang Jiang, Stanford Graduate School of Business
12:00pm	Buffet Lunch outside of Classroom 4210

	SESSION 2: Behavioral Marketing
1:30pm	Deciding Who Gets What, Fairly By Franklin Shaddy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2:00pm	Do People Inherently Dislike Uncertain Advice? By Celia Gaertig, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
2:30pm	Decision-Making under the Hot-Hand Fallacy By Lawrence Jin, Cornell University
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	The Pursuit of Creativity in Idea Generation Contests By Melanie Brucks, Stanford University
4:00pm	Perceived Social Presence Reduces Fact-Checking By Youjung Jun, Columbia University
4:30pm	Conference Adjourns, Bus departs for The Omni Hotel

6:30pm – 10:00pm	Dinner at BAR

Whitebox Advisors Graduate Student Conference 2017
Day 2: Friday April 28, 2017
Edward P. Evans Hall, Classroom 4410
*Please Note the Room Change Today

8:00am	Check out of Hotel (if applicable)
8:15am	Bus departs The Omni Hotel for Evans Hall (for conference presenters and guests staying at hotel)
8:30am	Registration and Breakfast outside of classroom 4410 Note: there is a reserved room to secure luggage and belongings if needed in Evans Hall, room 4471*

	SESSION 3: Behavioral Economics
9:00am	1984 or the Brave New World? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Media Censorship in China By David Yang, Stanford University (with Yuyu Chen, Peking University)
9:30am	The Bandwagon Effect and the Market for Bias By Leifu Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
10:00am	The Role of Feedback in Sequential Search By Tanushree Jhunjhunwala, Ohio State University
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Present Bias By Anujit Chakraborty, University of British Columbia
11:30am	An Investigation of Factors that Influence Portfolio Choice Decisions By Percy Mistry, University of California Irvine (with Jennifer Trueblood, Vanderbilt University)
12:00pm	Boxed Sandwich Lunch outside of Classroom
1:30pm	Conference Adjourns. Bus departs for The Omni Hotel (for those who have not checked out yet)